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Sunday, November 19, 2017

Remember how I wrote about reclaiming summer? Well a few months ago in the dead of winter, I was working one Saturday and decided there had to be more to life than work. I rang up and booked a camping site by the sea; and this weekend we went to stay.

Friday, November 10, 2017

Last weekend I pulled out my paper pieced hearts. Last time I did this (a few months ago) I realised that the colours didn't go together and I couldn't come up with a solution so I put them away to marinate in the cupboard for a while. This time though I laid them out and tried again to make them work together. In the end I picked out all the discordant hearts and decided to do something with them.

I remembered that I had some grey background in my stash, so I pulled that out and there was the beginnings of a project. This week, I've been coming home from work and after dinner I've been stitching those hearts together and gradually a project has emerged that I really really like.

How cool that the ugly pieces, the ones that didn't match, the pieces that got put aside; those are the pieces that have come together to make a quilt that I think is simple but harmonious.

It is not a mistake that I notice this right now. This week that has been so hard for so many reasons. A week when I learned some hard lessons, I struggled and acknowledged my shortfalls.

This week I took out the disused and ugly pieces of my life and

had to find a way to make it all work together.

Life isn't all sunshine and roses, sometimes it is grey grey days

and struggles. Sometimes it is tears and heart ache.

Sometimes it is fears and worries.

But this week ask I've stitched my grey hearts together,

I'm remembering that the hard things are the things that help us

to work out what is really important,

to hold onto the good things and to make peace with the things

that seem hard.

This week I'm grateful for two amazing jobs that challenge me out of my comfort zone.

I'm grateful for friends with kind forgiving hearts.

I'm grateful for oven fries for dinner and for fresh eggs from the chickens.